Comprehensive Stability Guide For Stalker OGSR
If i get around something useful i’ll drop in acquired information here
Despite that OGSR has newer 64bit engine and is way better than original 32-bit Stalker, it is quite prone to crashes.
This small note is aimed at accumulation of all available methods, which help to improve stability of the game by any means.
ESSENTIAL THINGS TO DO
- reinstall [DirectX9] / reboot
- reinstall [OpenAL] / reboot
- reinstall [Visual C++ libraries] / reboot
- turn off SMT in BIOS or do it by means of [Process Lasso]
or assign CPU affinity via Windows task manager [less convenient] - let the game use only 4 physical cores,
more cores is worse because the game don’t know how to use them
IF NOTHING HELPS
- set swap file to automatic mode
- turn off antialiasing in video card driver control panel
- turn off grass shadow in game settings
- set anisotropic filtering to x1
- turn off/on vsync in video card driver control panel
- remove KB2670838 update [make a backup of the system]
The last, but often very effective measure is to set render to DirectX9 mode.
Do it as a last resort because by doing so you substantially cripple in-game graphics.
For DirectX 9 driver set at least enhanced full dynamic lightning mode, just to make things look better.
